Vanity case



W. G. KENDALL.

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1,436,504. Patented N v. 21, 1922.

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WILLIAM G. KENDALL, OF NE ARK. NEW JERSEY. VANITY CASE.

Application filed August 16, 1922. Serial No. 582,204.

T (all 'lchom'it may concern..- inwardly disposed shoulder as designated Be it known that 1. WILLIAM G. KENDALL. hy the reference character 21. The lower a citizen of the l nited States. and a resident edge of this metallic. hand 19 is provided 5 of Newark, in the county of Essex and State with a plurality of resilient tongues 22, said 5 of New Jersey, have invemed a. new and tongues being formed ivy-slitting the band Improved Vanity Case. of which the followupwardly from the bottom edge as desiging is a in, clear. and exact description. noted by the reference character 23. Each The resent invention relates to new an end of this hand is provided with a lug or 60 useful improvements in vanity cases and it rolled car 25. the purpose of which will it) pertains more particularly to a new and hereinafter described.

novel method of retaining a powder com- The. device functions in the following pact in operative position within the vanity manner:

case. The powder compact 16 together with 66 It is one of the objects of the invention to its carrier is placed within the vanity case construct a new and novel means for retain- 11, after which the metallic hand 19 is ing a powder compact within a vanity case. sprung into position with its upper edge in It is a further object of the invention to engagement with the inwardly-disposed so construct the retaining means that the shoulder 15. \\ith the hand in this position, 70

wder compact carrier may be removed it is apparent that the spring tongues 22 will from the vanity case at wil. engage the angular edge 18 of the compact With the ahove and other objects in view, carrier 17 and retain the same in position. reference is had to the accompanying draw- When it is desired to renew the compact it is in? in whichonly necessary to remove the hand 19 by Hi igure 1 is a top plan view of a vanity grasping the lugs 95 hctwecn the thumh an case constructed in accordance with the presfore linger. when the. compact carrier is free ant invention; I to he moved outwardly of the vanity case Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken in order that a new compact may be placer on the line 22.of Fig. 1. therein. B0

Referring more particularly to the draw- From the foregoing it apparent that the 50 ings, the reference character 11 designates present invention provides a new and imthe vanity case, 12 designates the cover thereproved means Eor securing powder compacts of, and 13 designates the hinge by means of in vanity cases. and. furthermore, the invenwhich the cover is secured to the vanity case. tion provides such a means which is capable B5 The vanity case has an open side 14:. and a of permitting removal of the useless comjacent said open side the side walls of the pact carrier in order that the new compact vanity case at. pressed inwardly to promay he substituted therefor. vide an inwardly disposed annular shou l claim: der 15. 1. A compact retainer for vanity cases 90 The reference character 16 designates a comprising a resilient metallic hand adaptpowder compact and said powder compact ed for engagement with the side walls of a is mounted in a metallic carrier 17 which is vanity c'ase. and resilient tongues formed in adapted to be received within the vanity case said hand and adapted to engage a compact 11 as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The reference to retain the same within the vanity case. 05 character 18 designate. the inwardly-dis- 2. In a device of the character described,

posed side flanges o the compact carrier a vanity case having an inwardly'disposed 17, which provide an intervening shaped annular shoulder. a owder compact adaptspace between the side walls of the vanity ed to he received wit in the vanity case, an case and the side edges of the compact cara metallic hand for securing the compact 100 rier 17. The reference character 19 desigwithin the vanity case. said metallic hand nates a resilient metal band adapted to be having its upper edge adapted to engage heositioned in the vanity case in such a manneath the inwardly-disposed shoulder and nor that its upper edge engages beneath the its lower edge provided with a plurality of remient tongues adapted to engage the uomposed annular shoulder of the unity ens. put to retam the same withlh the vanity and in en ement withthe side walls there- 10 case. of, andre s ent tongues ada ted to reject 3. A vanity case formed with an mwardinwardly of the'vamty case rom ni resili- 5 i wdisposed annular shoulder adjacent thereent metallic bandand into engagement with in, a compact carrier adapted to be received the eompact to retain the same within the within the vanity case, a resilient band vanity case. adapted t0 engage beneath the inwardly-dis- WILLIAM G. KENDALL. 

